-> > I'm Bruce Feist.  I was active on the Fidonet PHOTO echo years ago

Hi Bruce.  I've been around the Photo echo for many years now.  Your name 
sounds slightly familiar to me, but my memory isn't what it used to be so I 
can't trust it.  At any rate, welcome (back) to the fold. :)  Sorry it took me 
so long to find your message. It's been so quiet here lately I only check 
occasionally to see if there is any life.
(sorry Bob...you know I'd start something if I had a topic

............oh wait......the man who owns the local frame shop has been after 
me for over a year to bring in some local shots for him to sell out of the 
store.  The Chamber of Commerce had asked me for some recently, to put in the 
big Womans Show in Ottawa, and afterwards the lady in charge of that told me I 
should take them down to that same frame shop, so I gave in and took one.  He 
bought it instantly, will frame it, double the price and add the cost of the 
framing and then we'll just see if it sells. (that was about a week ago) I 
have not had the nerve to go down there and see how much he's asking for it. I 
know that if it's not as high as I'd have priced it if I'd had it framed 
first, I'll charge him more if he wants to try again. :P
But enough about me....
-> 
-> > I started collecting cameras when I was 13 years old..
-> 
-> You and Russ McMillen ought to establish a museum.  He has a couple or three
-> of the movie variety, I think!

Ever hear from Russ anymore?  I  miss him.
-> 
-> Those (the old ones that pleased me) were the ones I hated losing most when
-> mine fell victim to a flooded basement.  A few were among effects kept by my
-> parents, dupes I'd given to them over the years.  But the main collection
-> just no longer exists.

That does it.  Any photos currently in my basement have to find a home 
upstairs!  They used to be up here anyway.  Can't remember why they went down 
there, but I sure have not seen as much of them since then, so that's no fun 
anyway.  But losing them to a flood?  How awful!
-> 
-> >
-> > In the late 90s, for a 40th birthday present I got my first serious
-> > digital camera, an Olympus D-600L.  This reawakened my interest in
-> > photography in general, both for digital and film.  Digital cameras are
-> > *fun*, and the D-600L did a very good job.  Suddenly I was taking lots
-> > of photos again!
-> 
-> That's a common result.  Entry of digitals renewed taking activity for so
-> many of us.  There ought to be room for both, with conventionals.

That's true, but I find digital pictures are a rather fleeting thing.  You 
tend to show the ones you took to fewer people ....no, that's not right....I 
show more of them to online friends than I do to family and local friends, so 
I guess it's just different people.  They are definitely not dug out and 
looked at again as much as the printed kind though, unless I'm looking for 
something specific for some other reason.  And I actually print only the odd 
one now and then.  My family album is suffering.
-> >
-> > ....  My collection is up to nearly 500 cameras, and my wife
-> > recently strongly suggested that I stop buying for a while.

Hahaha.....I agree.  How can you even remember what you have?  Are they 
displayed on shelves, or packed in boxes?  If you have an old Canon AL-1 that 
still holds it's batteries, I'm sneaking in there to make off with it!   I 
have 3 Canons.  That SLR is of little use to me now as no matter how much tape 
I use to hold the batteries in, they always fall out at the exact wrong 
moment.  The other two cameras are a Canon Sure Shot with a 105 Zoom, and a 
Canon A50 digital.  The problem with those two is that they have to think for 
a moment after you push the button, so you don't always get exactly what you 
were after.  I hate that hesitation!

-> > I have two trips coming up that I'm looking forward to photographing:
-> > Costa Rica and Prince Edward Island..
-> 
-> Let us know how those trips evolve, Bruce.

Yes, and then post some pictures somewhere so we can go see :)
-> >
-> > When I shoot film, I scan it using a Nikon CoolScan 4000 ED or Epson
-> > Perfection 2450 Photo scanner, depending on the format, and post it to
-> > my web site at www.flock.org/photos. 

Oh, there it is  :)  I'll surf through those as time permits.  Naomi is a cute 
kid.  I suppose she's so used to you pointing a camera at her she doesn't 
notice anymore.  Enjoy it while it lasts.  

Well, now I've found a moon over a mountain (love that) and I'm surfing more 
than writing, so ttyl...
And once again, welcome to the group.

Karen 
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